Quick links:
- How your child is referred to the service
- What to expect on your first appointment
- How the Children’s Asthma Service can help
- Meet the team
- Contact the service
- Further support
A child or young person can be referred for a wide range of respiratory conditions, including:
- Evaluation of under five wheeze
- Assessment of chronic cough
- Assessment and management of asthma
- Multi-professional approach to difficult asthma
- Shared care for CYP asthma on biologics
- Follow up CYP asthma following intensive care
- Shared care for CYP with cystic fibrosis
- Regional shared care of CYP with cleft lip and palate
- Follow up interstitial and chronic lung disease
- Local shared care for technology dependent children
- Paediatric TB screening for active and latent TB
- Shared care for children with larygiotracheobronchil abnormalities
- Care of children with non CF bronchiectasis
- Screening for primary ciliary dysfunction.
How your child is referred to the service
Children can be referred to see a consultant from their GP, another Doctor at the hospital or a health care professional. The consultants will review the referrals to determine the urgency of the condition, the level of urgency will determine how soon the appointment is.
What to expect on your first appointment
You will be reviewed by the consultant either with or without the respiratory nurse. You may be asked to see the respiratory nurse following your appointment to go through your treatment plans in more detail. You may also be asked to go for further investigations, such as blood tests and lung function tests, so please allow sufficient time for your visit.
How the Children’s Asthma Service can help
The children’s asthma service offers a multi-disciplinary approach providing a holistic and coordinated management, education and support package to care to the child and family with asthma, recognising social, cultural and spiritual differences.
Once your child is under the care of a consultant we can then see children in a variety of settings; in clinic at the hospital, schools, and at patients’ homes across Doncaster and Bassetlaw.
The aim of the service is to work in partnership with the child, young person, and family to provide education, advice, treatments, and support empowering them to be able to manage their condition. We work in partnership with consultants in clinics, and other health professionals in the community linking with GPs and schools to further develop links within the local community.
Meet the team
Respiratory Consultants
- Mathew Kurian
- Shoma Ganguly
- Ahmed Sulieman
Shoma Ganguly, Respiratory Consultant at DBTH.
Respiratory nurse specialists
- Jodie Smith (left)
- Emma Beekie (right)
Contact the service
If your child or young person has been referred to the Respiratory Service and you need to speak with a respiratory nurse about their condition, please call: 01302 642782
Lines are open Monday to Friday 8am-4pm.
Further support
Advice from Heathier Together South Yorkshire.
COVID-19 information for parents/carers
Whooping cough, easy read version
Difficulty breathing and wheeze
Advice from Asthma and Lung UK
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